Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
Rickie Lee Jones

Best, Fear, Give

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
Rickie Lee Jones

Accomplish, Musician, Hoped

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
Rickie Lee Jones

God, Santa, Claus

I didn't have any great job prospects.
Rickie Lee Jones

Great, Job, Prospects

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
Rickie Lee Jones

Life, Time, Person

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
Rickie Lee Jones

Career, Once, Terrible

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
Rickie Lee Jones

Words, Imagine, Places

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
Rickie Lee Jones

Put, Wanted, Singing

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
Rickie Lee Jones

Music, Live, Enjoy

I think poetry is best read to oneself.
Rickie Lee Jones

Best, Poetry, Read

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.
Rickie Lee Jones

Democracy, America, Dying

I want to work and be happy.
Rickie Lee Jones

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.
Rickie Lee Jones

Mother, Strong, Felt

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
Rickie Lee Jones

Emotional, Destroyed, Easily

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
Rickie Lee Jones

Working, Ask, Respected

I'm so positive.
Rickie Lee Jones

I'm terribly human.
Rickie Lee Jones

Human, Terribly

I've always had an active imagination.
Rickie Lee Jones

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
Rickie Lee Jones

Care, Children, Old

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
Rickie Lee Jones

Political, Country, Unless

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
Rickie Lee Jones

Family, General, Troubled

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
Rickie Lee Jones

Home, Job, Working

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
Rickie Lee Jones

Music, Stuff, Popular

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
Rickie Lee Jones

Play, Familiar, Somehow

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
Rickie Lee Jones

Life, Single, Career

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Nationality: American

Born: November 8, 1954

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